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Black Hat Fireside Chat: The impactful role crowdsourced security intelligence must play

The Last Watchdog

Sharing intel for a greater good Now one distinctive type of crowdsourcing — ethical hacking – is positioned to become a much more impactful component of securing modern networks. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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Night Sky ransomware operators exploit Log4Shell to target hack VMware Horizon servers

Security Affairs

The ransomware gang started its operations on December 27, 2021, and has already hacked the corporate networks of two organizations from Bangladesh and Japan respectively. In early January, threat actors started targeting VMware Horizon systems exposed on the Internet. nightsky ‘ extension to encrypted file names. trendmrcio[.]com,

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InfectedSlurs botnet targets QNAP VioStor NVR vulnerability

Security Affairs

On December 6, The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) published the first update to the InfectedSlurs advisory series. The security firm revealed that threat actors were exploiting a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49897 (CVSS score 8.0) and earlier.

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Updated Kmsdx botnet targets IoT devices

Security Affairs

Researchers spotted an updated version of the KmsdBot botnet that is now targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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STRRAT RAT spreads masquerading as ransomware

Security Affairs

Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. pic.twitter.com/mGow2sJupN — Microsoft Security Intelligence (@MsftSecIntel) May 19, 2021. SecurityAffairs – hacking, STRRAT RAT). crimson extension. Pierluigi Paganini.

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VMware urges customers to patch VMware Horizon servers against Log4j attacks

Security Affairs

VMware released security patches to address critical Log4j security vulnerabilities in VMware Horizon servers targeted in ongoing attacks. VMware urges customers to patch critical Log4j security vulnerabilities impacting Internet-exposed VMware Horizon servers targeted in ongoing attacks. to add a shell.

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

Security Affairs

In October, Akamai’s Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) noticed an anomalous activity to the company’s honeypots targeting a rarely used TCP port. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, botnet)

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